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#1 Best Drip/Water Pan
This is likely the primary way I use a standard rectangular, ¼ sheet size disposable pan. I let this pan act as both a drip pan to collect juices from say pork shoulder, brisket, or lamb as well as to act as a water pan to produce a convection environment. First, I love to load my pan with vegetables like rough cut onion, whole garlic, celery, carrot, fresh herbs, etc. I also like to use different liquids based on what I’m cooking. For fish and seafood, I like juices and wines. For meats beer, ciders or full-bodied wines. I rarely ever do simple water in my water pan.#2 Charcoal Keeper
There are times when you need to ensure that your charcoal is positioned ideally for specific foods to keep the heat distribution ideal and the cooker’s walls from radiating too much heat in a certain direction. One of the easiest ways to ensure that the heat radiates in the correct direction is to use a disposal foil pan. Once your charcoal is ready to be dumped from a chimney starter, dump it directly into a foil pan. This allows you to set an indirect method of cooking on a charcoal unit with greater ease. It also will keep the walls of the kettle grill from radiating too much heat to the center of the grill for the grilling of more fragile items like pizza, breads, and cakes. No more burnt centers, just even cooking.#3 Warmer
Anything made with aluminum will be a great radiator and retainer of heat. That’s why I love to use disposable foil pans as warming units. When paired with a foil insulated blanket, you can maintain all types of proteins for up to 2 hours perfectly. Plus, if any liquids should leak, they will be capture in that pan.#4 Gift Giving Essential
Whenever I make a substantial amount of something say pulled pork or smoked potato, I love to be able to pass along some of my efforts to family and friends. I love how these disposable pans can go from my hands, to someone’s refrigerator then to their oven or grill without needing to do a thing. These pans will not change the flavor of the food and can easily have liquid added to them without concern.#5 Eliminate Cleaning Creosote
If you’ve ever used any glass, silicone, or enamel items on your smoker, you’ve probably had to deal with 2 issues: baked on creosote which is usually a brown-black tar like substance and imbedded smoke flavor in your silicone, something you cannot remove. Aluminum does not absorb flavors and any visible discolorations are simply thrown away with the pan. You don’t have to worry about clean up in any way.#6 A Beach Grill
By purchasing a good quality stainless steel grill grate, just a small one, you can turn a foil pan into a beach grill. I call this a beach grill as the easiest set up is with sand already present on a beach but you can certainly purchase and bring to another location, a small bag of sand. Bring along or collect some rocks to act as a containment or barrier for the hot coals and fire. Mark an area around the pan using the rocks. Add charcoal to the pan and lite or pour hot coals directly into the pan from a chimney starter. Once the embers are hot, place a grill grate over the pan and you’re ready to grill with this disposable unit. The best part – all the ash will collect in the foil pan for easy disposal. Oh, and don’t forget to use the hot coals after for something great for the next day. Lay some peppers, hot or sweet, onions, even baked potatoes and your setting up for another meal.These are just some of the great ways disposable aluminum foil pans can be used for outdoor wood fired cooking to keep things organized, simple, and still flavorful.
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